JAPANESE THRUSH. 
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six lines ; of the hind toe, one inch. The tail has fourteen 
feathers. In the relative measurements of the tarsus and 
middle toe this Thrush differs from the characters usually 
quoted by systematists as belonging to the Thrushes, whether 
taken as restricted to the Merulidce, or in the more enlarged 
sense of the genus Turdus, namely, “ tarsus longer than 
the middle toe,” this specimen having the tarsus shorter 
than the middle toe by nearly half an inch. 
It is to be presumed that this Thrush does not vary in 
the tints of the plumage, or in the distribution of the colours, 
from circumstances of age or sex, since Temminck describes 
all he has seen as similar in appearance. 
